1797. Treaty of Campio Formio between Bonaparte and the emperor of Austria.
1803. Agra in Hindostan taken by the British.
1805. Ulm surrendered by the Austrian general Mack to Bonaparte, and was delivered up on the 20th. The archduke with a corps of 17,000 Austrians effected his escape the night before by a masterly piece of generalship, leaving 40,000 behind who became prisoners to the French.
1806. Battle of Halle; prince Eugene of Wirtemburg defeated by the French under
Bernadotte; 34 cannon and 5,000 prisoners were taken.
1806. Jacques Dessalines, the black emperor of Hayti, assassinated.
1829. The Delaware and Chesapeake canal opened.
1834. Both houses of the British parliament destroyed by fire. They were not very remarkable for elegance or convenience; but with them was destroyed the celebrated tapestry that hung upon the walls of the house of lords, representing the defeat of the famous Spanish armada, a relic of great value in the eyes of the antiquary.
1837. John Hummel, an eminent musical composer, founder of the modern school of pianoforte music, died at Weimar, in Germany.
1848. Vienna in a state of siege; the imperial troops drawn close around the city, and deputations passed from the diet at Vienna to the emperor at Olmutz. Kossuth withdrew the Hungarian army within their own frontier.